(335 words) Ilya Ilyich Oblomov - a character created by the famous Russian writer I. A. Goncharov, incorporates many negative features of the Russian nobility of the nineteenth century. Moreover, the hero is one of the most striking images of all Russian literature. The whole novel is built around the life of this person, around the collision of Oblomov’s dream and harsh reality.
The dream of the protagonist is revealed to the reader already on the first pages of the novel. Ilya Ilyich has a dream about his home - the village of Oblomovka. This place is a real fairy-tale utopia. Far from the noise of civilization, a rural area with an ideal climate and clear blue sky. Here ordinary simple people live ordinary life, between which there are no quarrels and insults. The Oblomov family does not tyrannize their peasants, and they answer them with endless devotion. Oblomovka is a quiet, harmonious island of calm among the ocean of fuss. Its inhabitants are afraid of the outside world and seek to isolate themselves from it by all means, which often comes to the point of absurdity. The Oblomovs’s estate doesn’t read newspapers in order not to stumble on some bad news there, the mother of the family did not open a single letter for many years, and the peasants leave the person in trouble, condemning him to certain death, only because he - a stranger. It becomes clear that just such a life, filled with leisurely warm days and kind people, is the cherished dream of the protagonist. Oblomov wants to see a world where love and monotony triumph, rather than vanity and careerism, because of which he retired from society to his small, untidy apartment with a sofa and an old housecoat, where he indulged in spiritual decomposition, which, in the end, , led him to death, both spiritual and physical. Throughout the novel, the people around Oblomov are trying to bring him back to life, but all this is in vain. Towards the end of the story, he finally fulfills his dream. He married the good, but not-so-distant Agafya Matveevna Pshenitsina and began to live a calm but empty life. A small island of kindness and tranquility, becomes the grave for the protagonist, who did not reach the age of forty.
Goncharov wanted to show the tragedy of an ordinary person who, due to his own nature and the laws of his time, was doomed to slow decomposition, meaningless life and equally meaningless early death from birth.
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